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LEDs on Silicon Gaining Traction

by Raverstead

Plessey has achieved 120 lumens/Watt light output with its MAGIC GaN-on-Silicon LED technology. Light output efficiency was said to be greater than 50%. Engineering samples are shipping now, as well as blue die with …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 46

N1 is Nokia’s Android Surprise

by Raverstead

The Nokia brand is known for Windows and Windows Phone products – especially since the acquisition of the smartphone unit by Microsoft. Now the Finnish company has surprised everyone by releasing a high-end Android …

Optoma Buys NuForce

by Raverstead

Optoma has acquired NuForce, a maker of consumer audio products. Optoma described the acquisition as a “logical progression” for the company. Optoma’s new sound range will be available across Europe, the Middle East, Africa …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Optoma| Vol 21 - Issue 46

SWIT Electronics Shows Monitors, RF Connectivity

by Raverstead

I had a chance to visit with SWIT Electronics USA (San Jose, CA), the US Subsidiary of SWIT Electronics Co. Ltd. (Nanjing, China). SWIT originated in 1996 and produced what it says was the …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| CCW 2014 (Content & Communications World)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Updates from the SuperComputing Conference

by Helen Vince

High Performance Computing – The SuperComputing Conference being held in New Orleans is an interesting event if you have high performance computing (HPC) needs, like those in broadcast, post production and some ProAV applications. …

4K-UHD Delivery Options Getting Real

by Helen Vince

Home Entertainment – M-Go, Amazon and DirecTV are all in the news with new 4K-UHD delivery services that are rolling out now or shortly. Last week, we reported that DirecTV was getting ready to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Technicolor| VOD in UltraHD & 4K| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Update on 4K Cameras from CCW

by Helen Vince

Camera/Camcorders – I had a chance to visit several manufacturers of 4K cameras at the recent CCW 2014 (Content and Communications World) in New York November 12 – 13 and get updates on cameras …

Adder’s IP-based KVM Solutions Solving Post Production Problems

by Helen Vince

Broadcast & Distribution – At CCW (Content and Communications World), we had a chance to take a more careful look at Adder’s KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) extension solutions. KVM extension is needed when …

Tags:CCW 2014 (Content & Communications World)| KVMs| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Acer’s October Sales Down MoM

by Raverstead

Acer saw sales for October drop 9.25% sequentially to NT$28.2 billion ($921.6 million), though this was slightly higher year on year. Sales for the period from January to October were 9.5% lower than the …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Large Panel Shipments Fell 1% MoM

by Raverstead

A total 22.5 million large panels were shipped in October from Taiwan’s four major panel manufacturers. This was just under 1% lower than the previous month but represented a year on year improvement of …

Tags:Display Supply & Demand| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Quantel Introduces Live Touch for Instant Replay

by Helen Vince

Broadcast & Distribution – Quantel has a nice presence in the sports broadcasting segment where its Enterprise sQ servers are used to store live video feeds on a frame by frame basis. This allows …

Tags:CCW 2014 (Content & Communications World)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Post Production| Vol 21 - Issue 46

October Sales Suggest Record Christmas

by Raverstead

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) says that its findings in the latest BRC-KPMG Online Retail Sales Monitor for October suggest another record online Christmas this year. Online sales represented 18.2% of total sales in …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Retail Data| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 45